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Scheme FAME India The FAME India scheme has National clean air
Commencement 1 April 2015
program
two phases. The first phase
Steps towards pollution-
lasted till 31 March 2019. The
free transport started on 1 April 2015 and Commencement 10 January 2019 Scheme
second phase, which will last
Objective: To promote the use of for five years, started on 1 PROMOTING
e-vehicles in public transport April 2019. Under this, subsidy CLEAN AIR
50 million liters of fuel have been from Rs 18000 to Rs 3 lakh is
saved in the first phase of FAME India. being provided on e-vehicles. Objective: To reduce the harmful
Apart from promoting 2.3 lakh particulate matter present in the air
Battery swapping policy electric vehicles under FAME by 20 to 30 percent in 132 cities by
India Phase-II, 6315 e-buses
In electric vehicles, the time taken have been approved for 65 2024.
for charging and maintenance of cities. Also, 2877 charging
the battery is the biggest obstacle. stations for 68 cities and n 102 cities were covered at the
For this, for the first time, a 1576 charging stations at 25 beginning of the scheme. Later
battery swapping policy has been Highway-Expressway have 30 more cities were added.
announced in the country. been approved.
n There are 818 manual operating
stations under this program Progress
covering 303 cities/towns in 29
states and 4 union territories of
Progress
One Nation-One Gas Grid
Scheme Commencement June, 2014 In 27 years preceding 2014, 15 n In addition, there are 86 real-
the country.
Expansion of
time continuous ambient air
One Nation-One thousand km of gas pipelines quality monitoring stations in
were laid in the country. In
57 cities. There are 18 such
System January 2021 the 450 km gas stations in Delhi and 20 stations
pipeline from Kochi to Mangaluru are in the installation stage.
Objective: To provide LPG to has been commissioned. 16000 There are 309 such stations
every household in the country km of the gas pipeline is to be across the country.
and CNG for vehicles. laid under this scheme in 5 years.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Urja n Graded Response Action Plan
Ganga Project, work is underway has been launched for Delhi
on a 2500 km long pipeline NCR.
connecting Jagdishpur in Uttar n The number of cities showing
Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal. better air quality increased to 96
Prime Minister has dedicated 350 in 2020 from 86 in 2019.
km of the Dobhi-Durgapur pipeline
to the nation last year under the n To reduce vehicular pollution,
scheme. India has directly adopted the
BS-VI fuel standard after BS-IV.
Progress
Commencement 2 October, 2014
Scheme Swachh Bharat Mission Urban Similarly, 6.21 lakh community and public toilets have been 62.65

constructed. For urban solid waste management, out of
Increased cleanliness drive
done in 87,095 wards. When the scheme was started, the
in cities, with an eye on the 89,650 wards, 100% of the door-to-door collection is being lakh
individual
complete elimination of waste processing capacity was 20 percent which has gone household
up to 72 percent. Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0 has
single-use plastic been launched on 2nd October 2021 with a holistic vision toilets
of creating "Garbage Free Cities". In the second phase of 5 have been
Objective: To achieve universal years, the emphasis is on curbing single-use plastics and constructed
sanitation in cities so far
effective management of construction waste along with
fecal sludge and wastewater management.

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